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Originally Posted by John NY
Bacalo
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Bacalao!! I totally forgot all of the weird salt-cod preparations we do down here. We just got through the Fanesca season. Fanesca, for the uninitiated, is a very thick soup made of liquified milk-reconstituted Bacalao, squash, pumpkin, and something like 10 grains (peas, 3 kinds of bean, corn, lentils, rice, barley, quinoa, etc etc etc.), with garlic and onion and achiote and butter and cream. It's served with bits of deep-fried Bacalao that has been reconstituted in beer, and slices of fried banana. Kind of like a big, steamy yellow bowl of coronary malfunction. I love it.